Mattityahu 13:24-30

Orthodox Jewish Bible

²⁴ Another mashal Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach placed before them, saying, The Malchut HaShomayim is like a man sowing zera tov (good seed) in his field.

²⁵ But while men slept, his oyev (enemy) came and oversowed weeds in between the wheat and went away.

²⁶ But when the wheat sprouted and produced pri, then the weeds also appeared.

²⁷ So the servants of the Baal Bayit said to him, Adoneinu, did you not sow zera tov (good seed) in your field? How then does it have weeds?

²⁸ And he said to them, An oyev did this. So the servants say to him, Do you want us to go and pull them all?

²⁹ But he says, No, lest gathering the weeds you should uproot the wheat together with them.

³⁰ Permit both to grow together until the Katzir (harvest); and in time of the Katzir, I will say to the kotzerim, Collect first the weeds, and bind them into bundles to burn them. But the wheat gather into my storehouse.